Barbara Barksdale Clowse
A Doctor for Rural America,
10/2020
Book Chapter
In early March 1921 the bureau staff received word that Bradley had made her first foray into the trans-Mississippi South. The impetuous doctor arrived in Arkansas ahead of schedule and her baggage. Moreover, she found Little Rock, the capital, overrun with legislators, making it impossible to find a place to live. The State Board of Health had offices in the capitol building, but these were so crowded that Bradley could find no room even for the films and one army trunk. Her typewriter was broken. She exclaimed, “Woe is me,” to Washington but was, in fact, bursting with undiminished enthusiasm:
